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Director of Sport + PE - Full-time

Wrotham School, Sevenoaks

  • Ref:KCC886-5409-408T
  • Posted:04/04/2025
  • Pay:Highly Competitive and TLR
  • Start Date:September 2025
  • App Close Date:30/04/2025 at 14:00
  • Interviews:As Arranged

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Inspire. Lead. Transform.

 

Wrotham School is a vibrant, inclusive, and ambitious non-selective comprehensive school committed to providing outstanding opportunities for all students. We are proud of our diverse community and our mission to ensure every young person achieves their personal best — in the classroom, on the field, and beyond. Wrotham participates at the highest level of sporting excellence in the local area, often qualifying for and winning local finals and cups in a range of sports. 

Our own in-house football academy is also performing above expectations, taking full advantage of our excellent facilities including 3g pitch.

We are seeking a dynamic and visionary Director of Sport and PE to lead our Physical Education department and shape the strategic direction of sport across the school. This is a unique opportunity for an outstanding leader to inspire students and staff, champion physical wellbeing, and make sport central to the life of our school. 

 

Key Responsibilities:

  • Provide strategic leadership for the PE department, driving up standards and participation.
  • Design and deliver a high-quality, inclusive PE curriculum across Key Stages 3, 4 and 5.
  • Develop and lead an ambitious whole-school sport and enrichment strategy.
  • Foster a culture of excellence, teamwork, resilience and sportsmanship.
  • Build strong partnerships with parents/carers, local clubs, sports bodies and community organisations.
  • Line manage and support a committed team of PE staff
  • Organise fixtures, events, and extracurricular clubs that inspire wide participation, in the UK and abroad
  • Champion the role of sport in promoting wellbeing, engagement, and achievement.

 

 

What We’re Looking For:

 

  • A passionate and inspiring leader with a proven track record in PE and sport education.
  • Experience in curriculum leadership, team development and school improvement.
  • A commitment to inclusive practice and promoting opportunities for all students.
  • Excellent communication, organisation and strategic planning skills.
  • An enthusiastic advocate for the power of sport to transform lives.

 

Information about the school

Wrotham School forms part of the Character Education Trust, a 2 Academy Trust that aims to provide students with high quality academic and ‘Character Education’.

Our vision is to support and encourage the students within our Trust to develop good character; to be confident and kind; to have integrity; to respect difference and to make a positive contribution to the community around them. A link to our website for more information can be found here https://www.charactereducationtrust.org/

The school has been recognised for its excellent work on Character Education by being awarded the prestigious School of Character Kitemark - a formal acknowledgement of the work the school has done to promote and develop good character in the school community.

We are a progressive and innovative school that provides a positive and productive place to work for teachers of all experience levels.

Why Work at Wrotham School?

-A trusting and caring workplace that looks after its staff. -A school that respects and values its staff team. -A high performing school that rewards good teaching. -Great students and families that give back in support and appreciation for good teaching.

An incredible provision of staff benefits from day one including:

• Flexible working arrangements that ensure every member of staff has an “offsite” flexible working period of 75 minutes+ at the start or end of at least 1 day per week. • Strict and well established out of hours communication restrictions that protect evenings, weekends and holiday periods. • Free lunch for all staff – every day. • No directed or preferred teaching style or method other than sharing and learning from good practice. • Access to short term/ emergency staff counselling by qualified psychotherapists – on site. • Free breakfast cereal for all staff and students – everyday. • Excellent transport links via motorway/ nearby train station. • Regular staff welfare surveys with clear outcomes and actions. • Bespoke and personalised CPD programme • An innovative “target free” teacher appraisal system that is exclusively based on continuous development of teaching and learning. • An excellent ECT and trainee programme of support and development. • Aspirant leadership courses (in house) and access to NPQ qualification at all levels. • A supportive behaviour and sanction system that relieves burden on teaching staff.
• A culture of trust of staff to manage working hours with no expectation to work on site when not required. • A regular and supportive check in and on boarding system.
• Access to excellent Teacher and LA pension schemes. • 3 days paid leave per rolling year for care of dependents. • Clear and transparent directed time

Wrotham is a small village in the heart of Kent, surrounded by a scenic rural landscape and beautiful countryside with excellent (5 minute) access from the A20/M20 and close proximity to the A2/M2/M25/M26. Journey by road from nearby Bromley/ Dartford/ Bexley/ Orpington varies from 15-30 minutes. The local mainline station is a 10 minute walk from the school and is on the direct commuter line to Victoria Station in central London; this line includes stops at Bromley South.

For further information visit our website www.wrothamschool.com

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We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our students. You are advised that this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and therefore this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Please be aware that schools are also required to undertake online recruitment checks on shortlisted candidates under changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education.